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Lizzy Buchan

Carol Vorderman says 'disgraceful' Tories should be wiped out at next election

Furious Carol Vorderman has said she wants to see the Tories annihilated at the next election.

The former Countdown star told an event in Westminster that she was "undecided voter" but she would vote tactically to see the Conservatives punished at the ballot box.

She said: "I love this country, by the way. I absolutely adore it. I've been joyously living here for a very long time.

"I believe the Government that we have now is so completely detached from the politics that I grew up with. I'm not saying it was perfect, but it's completely detached."

The 62-year-old, who received free school meals as a child in North Wales, said she wanted to see the number of Tory MPs slashed at the next election.

"They are so disgraceful that they should not even be able to form an opposition," she told the Mirror afterwards.

The former Countdown star has become increasingly critical of the Tories (Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Carol said she wouldn't run to be an MP (Dave Benett/Getty Images)

"They take from the poor and they give to the very rich. I grieve for what we used to have in politics.

"I want to do everything I can to get them out of power."

But asked if she would run to be an MP, she said: "No absolutely not."

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Carol, who has advised previous Governments, has become increasingly vocal in her criticism of Rishi Sunak's administration - branding the Tories "morally corrupt" earlier this year.

She has also slammed the Government's use of VIP lanes for PPE contracts during the pandemic.

Her comments came at the launch of a mega-poll for Best for Britain, which predicted a landslide for Labour at the next election.

Keir Starmer’s party would take 470 seats to just 129 for the Tories if a national ballot was held tomorrow, according to lage-scale research, using the controversial “multilevel regression and poststratification” method,

But the poll found Labour’s lead was vulnerable to Rishi Sunak wooing large numbers of undecided voters - and the threat from Nigel Farage’s Brexit vehicle Reform UK.

If wavering Brits go over to the Tories and Reform stands aside for the Conservatives in marginal seats then the model predicts a hung Parliament.

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